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New Horizons Probe Captures Images At Record Distance From Earth (engadget.com)
jwhyche writes: The New Horizons probe has captured the farthermost images of Earth. The probe took images of Earth from a distance of over 3.79 billion miles on December 5th, 2017. This beats the image Voyager 1 captured 27 years ago. The Voyager image was taken at a distance of 3.75 billion miles and has become known as the "Pale Blue Dot" photo. Engadget notes that this new record is likely to be broken again within a matter of months. "The [New Horizons spacecraft] is slated to swing by another Kuiper Belt object (2014 MU69) on January 1st, 2019 and record more imagery in the process," reports Engadget. "So long as the mission goes according to plan, New Horizons could hold on to its lead for a long time."
You're seeing it from above because the turtle is shy.
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What a vanity mission! We can see the influence of the Facebook indoctrinated generation here:
We sent up an expensive space probe to take a selfie!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
That's some pretty impressive zoom, but can we enhance it?
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
We sent up an expensive space probe to take a selfie!
Once upon a time there was a plan to build a space elevator. Next project: Space Selfie Stick
We'll make great pets